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This elegant café can trace its origins back to the days of stagecoaches, but the menu—an appealing east-meets-west melting pot of Indonesian and Dutch classic—is anything but old-fashioned. Try to snag a table on the leafy terrace if possible (it's even heated in winter), as it looks out onto one of the prettiest squares in the city.
Down a quiet side street near the Escher in Het Paleis Museum, wood-paneled walls and flickering candles make the friendly Café Hathor an atmospheric spot for a snack, a full meal, or just a quiet drink. In good weather, tables on a raft overlook a gently flowing canal.
Magnificently dating to 1423 but rebuilt in 1660, the oldest restaurant in The Hague has a well-preserved interior redolent of the Dutch Golden Age, complete with wood-beamed ceilings. The furniture and some of the decor is more contemporary these days, but it's still an impressive setting for a light lunch, a platter of bitterballen to wash down a cold beer, or a hearty surf-and-turfy dinner, or beef stew.
